The Internet of Things (IoT) has been considered as an emerging research area where the 6LoWPAN (IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network) protocol stack is considered as one of the most important protocol suite for the IoT.

Welcome to the Book!Thanks for your interest in developing applications for Android! Increasingly, people will accessInternet-based services using so-called “non-traditional” means, such as mobile devices. Themore we do in that space now, the more that people will help invest in that space to make iteasier to build more powerful mobile applications in the future. Android is new—Android-powereddevices appeared on the scene first in late 2008—but it likely will rapidly grow in importancedue to the size and scope of the Open Handset Alliance.Most of all, thanks for your interest in this book! I sincerely hope you find it useful and atleast occasionally entertaining.